Aviation GPS vs PilotDeck

Aviation GPS turns your iPhone or iPad into a professional-grade navigation instrument for pilots, flight training, and aviation enthusiasts — real-time bearing, distance, course deviation, and a full moving map with worldwide airport, navaid, and airspace data. Modeled on the panel-mount GPS navigators pilots already know, it pairs a clean FMC-style data display with a genuine moving map, HSI/CDI guidance, flight planning, and a Visual Approach mode with a 3° glidepath where there's no ILS. KEY FEATURES: • Moving map with 23-step zoom range, pan, pinch-zoom, and declutter levels • Globe projection: zoom out to see the Earth as a sphere, up to 10000 NM • Traffic from OpenSky or a GDL 90 ADS-B receiver (Stratux, SkyEcho), with threat colors, a 60-second speed vector, and a trail for a tapped target (advisory only) • Terrain colored relative to your altitude, with TERRAIN / PULL UP alerts (downloadable regional data; not a certified TAWS) • Optional obstacle layer (towers, masts, wind turbines) with OBSTACLE / PULL UP alerts for obstacles on your path (advisory only) • Own-ship breadcrumb trail • Worldwide airspace (Class B/C/D, Restricted/Danger/Prohibited, MOA, and more) — tap a boundary for its name, class, and floor/ceiling • Airspace proximity alarms before you enter a boundary • Messages for arrival, the next track before each turn, GPS loss, and descent • To-scale runways at close range, colored by surface type • Visual Approach mode: lateral and vertical guidance to any runway, no ILS required • VNAV page: plan a descent or climb to a target altitude at any waypoint, with the vertical speed required and the time to start down • Vertical situation display (VSD): terrain, obstacles, and airspace along your route or the next 60 NM • OBS mode: key in a course or dial it by dragging • HSI/CDI with auto-scaling sensitivity • 55,000+ airports and 10,000+ navaids (VOR, NDB, TACAN, DME) worldwide • FAA NOTAMs on the map, for your route, and per airport, kept for offline use (not an official briefing) • METAR and TAF with flight category • Flight log: record your track in the background, show it on the map, share as CSV or GPX • Barometric altitude and vertical speed, blended with GPS • Selectable GPS track smoothing, from light aircraft to jet speeds • Nearest (NRST) airports, navaids, and user waypoints, filtered by runway length and surface • Full-screen DATA page with selectable fields, and a customizable button bar • Portrait or landscape; on iPad, map, flight plan, and HSI at once • Track, Heading, or Auto compass modes, plus RMI and HSI styles • Airport info with runway diagrams, elevations, and up-to-date OpenAIP frequencies, with the 8.33 kHz channel you dial • Magnetic variation from the World Magnetic Model (WMM2025) • Background layers: coastlines, rivers, roads, railways, and cities • AutoZoom tightens the range on approach to your destination • Optional database updates; works fully offline • Built-in Pilot's Guide, available offline • X-Plane integration via XGPS (with simulator traffic), plus a demo mode with a KAP 140-style simulated autopilot FLIGHT PLANNING: • Unlimited waypoints — airports, navaids, or custom coordinates • Save flight plans by name and load them again • Automatic waypoint sequencing with turn-anticipation arcs • Per-leg and total distance and ETE • DIRECT TO any waypoint, with automatic return to the active plan • Named coordinate waypoints, saved and reusable • Activate, suspend, reverse, or clear your plan at any time • An altitude per leg with its minimum safe altitude, and your aircraft's climb and descent PROFESSIONAL FEATURES: • Great-circle bearing and distance, true or magnetic • ETA with local time at your destination • Coordinates in DEG, D M, or DMS format • Aviation-standard color coding and typeface Full worldwide aviation database on-device — no internet needed for navigation. Only OpenSky traffic, weather, NOTAMs, and the wind indicator use a live connection.

PilotDeck puts real aeronautical weather in your pocket — decoded METAR and TAF, live NOTAMs, SIGMET on the map, aviation news and a full route briefing for any ICAO airport in the world. Built by a pilot, for pilots, in a clean flight-deck (FMS) style. WEATHER — FREE, FOREVER • Live METAR and TAF, decoded into plain language • Hour-by-hour forecast: temperature, wind, gusts, precipitation, pressure; 7-day outlook • Weather at your exact position: a minute-by-minute rain nowcast and a 12-hour trend • Unlimited airports on your watchlist, everything cached for offline reading SMART PUSH ALERTS — THE FEATURE PILOTDECK WAS BUILT ON Follow an airport and PilotDeck watches it for you. The moment a new METAR or TAF is issued — a wind shift, a drop to IFR — a push reaches you, even with the app closed. ROUTE BRIEFING — YOUR WHOLE FLIGHT ON ONE SCREEN One tap builds a departure–destination–alternate brief, judged at your ETD and ETA: • A plain-English verdict: GOOD TO GO / CAUTION / NOT RECOMMENDED • NOTAMs sorted honestly: red only for what can stop you — runway or approach closed, minima raised, RVR out • SIGMET along your track, drawn on the map and sorted against your cruising level • Wind on the real runway layout: best threshold, crosswind and tailwind for every runway end, Vapp from your VREF • TAF timeline with LVTO, LVP and below-minima tags; take-off alternate when you may depart but could not land back • Countries overflown with entry times; re-route around any airspace in a few taps • The whole briefing as a three-page PDF to share or keep with the flight's documents Flight tracks are recorded in the background and can be merged and shared. AVIATION NEWS Twelve trusted sources in one feed, categorised, with alerts for incidents and regulation changes. Bookmark to read offline. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Live airport weather with a colour-coded wind compass, your Daily Check streak and the latest news. DAILY CHECK — A PRE-FLIGHT FOR YOUR BRAIN A two-minute cognitive pre-flight measures reaction, memory and decision-making and gives you a FIT index for today, with an IMSAFE self-check and a 30-day trend. REFERENCE IN SIX ICAO LANGUAGES Every screen has a REF key: an illustrated explanation in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish. TRAINING AND TOOLS • Holding Entry, Scan & Catch, Crosswind Crunch, Needle Chase — games that train real skills, with a scientific debrief • Aviation quizzes with detailed explanations • Flight-planning tools: wind and drift, top of descent, crosswind, fuel, density altitude and more PRICING — HOW IT WORKS PilotDeck is built for pilots, by pilots. Everything a pilot needs for a flight — weather, NOTAM, SIGMET, briefing and PDF, routes, alternates, tracks, news — is free and stays free. No operational feature is locked behind a paywall. What is paid is the training side: PilotDeck PRO unlocks unlimited games, the full quiz banks and the Daily Check history. That is what keeps the team going — the servers, and the data that is only sold, not given away. A number of professional feeds would make the app noticeably better: full ADS-B traffic for the flight-radar layer (today it runs on free feeds, so aircraft and flight details are incomplete), richer NOTAM and airport data, wider weather coverage and faster updates. Each is a paid subscription on our side, and every PRO plan brings them closer. PilotDeck PRO: Monthly €4.99 · Annual €39.99 (best value). Both start with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends; your account is charged within 24 hours prior to the end of that period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited on purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ In partnership with DataFly Systems LLC.